GMTV - extreme breastfeeding

[StealthPolarBear]

Thread to discuss it. It's on ITV in about half an hour. As far as I can tell the 'yes'es are on 75%

Devil, I voted because I am a member of the public (although not a GMTV viewer admittedly) and it was a public vote, as you point out, to see what the public think. I was not trying to skew the vote.

I am a member of the public too and you could only vote once so absolutely nothing iffy about it at all.

There were threads were people said they had voted more than once

Devil, last time I checked I was a member of the public, as are most (all?) other Mumsnetters (even if some of them are hairy-handed truck drivers).

I love hoppy's email. Brilliant!

A handful of people voted more than once. If that made a difference to the poll results then GMTV viewing figures would be so low it'd be off the air by now.

Oh FGS I obviously meant that I thought the threads rallying people to vote, sometimes more than once were a bit too much.
Hell I don't even know why I care.
Forget it.

those votes are not to see what the public think - they aren't randomly sampled opinion polls. The respondents are self-selecting, and therefore respond because they have an interest in the subject.

Like us.

And also, judging by the initial response of people who do "not agree" with extended bf, like a bunch of interfering, ill-informed numpties who enjoy expressing opinions about other peoples' rights and freedoms.

Bizarrely, someone out there is still voting

Voting NO that is

as the numbers have dropped from 79% in favour to 76.55%

Now I reckon it takes a couple of hundred votes to make that kind of a difference

Who could be bothered to vote "NO" on a poll which isn't linked to the website any more

I mean, I can understand why we cared enough to vote

But who the heck is bothering to vote no now?

!!!

Actually you are partly right thedevilwearsprimark, the voting wasn't skewed, unles you voted on another computer but a thread like this did push people to vote and also good point verylittlecarrot... now back to real life.

sorry that sounded rather pompous!

I gave the link to some lads I know that happened to be online at the time, they woudlnt have seen it otherwise, but they also wouldnt have voted 'yes' if they were against it.

purplemonkeydishwasher, the Youtube link still works for me but I think you need to be a member of Youtube and logged in to see it. The clip shows a woman doing a yoga headstand, and while she is in that position her baby crawls up to her, pulls down her shirt and starts bfing.

That yoga clip has been on You Tube for ages. Wonder why it's become so unsuitable all of a sudden